Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying at length; prostrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Lying at length.
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- adjective Lying at length.
Etymologies
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Examples
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C juste que moi, tout ce potentiel YAOI sous-jacent dans Naruto qui pour UNE FOIS s'exprime au grand jour moi je dis ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Quum tot oppidorum cadavera ante oculus projecta jacent.
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Whether it's the planet Genesistrine, or the moon, or a vast amorphous region super-jacent to this earth, or an island in the Super-Sargasso Sea, should perhaps be left to the researches of other super -- or extra -- geographers.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Hic jacent reliquiae mortales Gulielmi Hazlitt, auctoris non intelligibilis: natus Maidstoniae in comi [ta] tu Cantiae, Apr. 10,
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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Wentworth held the light aloft and peered down into that six feet of blackness at the jacent figure.
Mistress Wilding Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"Wal, you're kind o 'livin' ad-jacent, as the sayin 'is," observed Dan, with a shadowy smile.
The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Upon whose tombs these verses following were written: Hic jacent in Duno qui tumulo tumulantur in uno, Brigida, Patricius atque Columba plus, which is for to say in English: In Duno these three be buried all in one sepulchre:
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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An intense loyalty, not only to the political theories of the South, but to the memory of the men who died for them -- "qui bene pro patria cum patriaque jacent" -- still animates the survivors of the war.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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Salvato librario, et Demetrio lectore, ducatos XLV Francischo fabro lignario mediolanensi habitatori piscinæ urbis Romæ pro banchis Bibliothecæ conficiendis, maxime vero decem quæ ad sinistram jacent, quorum longitudo est XXXVIII palmorum, vel circa, et ita accepta parte pecuniarum, cujus summa est centum et XXX ducatorum, facturum se debitum promittit et obligat, die XV Julii 1475.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Our gun-boat shelled the town (Rome) and the ad = jacent roads and quite a num ber of the rebs were killed.
Franklin County: David R. P. Shoemaker to Henry A. Bitner, March 21, 1863 David R. P. Shoemaker 1863
biocon commented on the word jacent
In addition, jacent means 1. recumbent; 2. sluggish (OED).
February 20, 2012